subject: Vegetable Plants And Perennial Plants Are Bountiful And Beautiful [print this page] Our gardens should be bountiful and beautiful, bountiful in an effort to offer up copious amounts of vegetables, and beautiful with flowers, shrubs also trees, as the ardent gardener want to product bigger and better year on year.
The cost of fresh produce has soared in the past couple of years, this of course is due to the rising cost of petrol prices, importing, and weather related disasters. For some time now families all over the world are alerted to the use of chemical and pesticides used to treat fruits and vegetables and want another way for the future.
Organic vegetable growing is becoming very popular not only in the household but also in supermarkets when a designated shelf is kept for organic fruit and vegetables, and these days more and more families are finding healthier and safer alternative ways to bring good wholesome vegetables to the table, either buying local produce, farmers markets, also growing their own in their own gardens.
Many people research what to use as an alternative to grow bigger and better vegetables and flowers, and basic products found in every home are used by the keen gardener, for example did you know that Banana peels are used as a mild fertilizer, they are a great source of potassium, and will give a new lease of life to your tomatoes and rose plants.
The production of larger yields for vegetable plants and house plants is down to a good source of calcium, which is found in egg shells, just boil the shells to prevent salmonella and then grin or crush them into a powder and sprinkle into the soil.
Coffee grounds, seaweed, garlic is also great for plants, the coffee grounds are high in nitrogen which is also a mild fertilizer, and the garlics odor will prevent insects from eating plants especially roses.
Tricks from years ago help to keep plants disease free, such as jelly powder sprinkled on garden seeds will give them a good start especially lemon flavour which will repel bugs. Beer will kill slugs and snails, and of course the old favourite Epsom salts, which is a source of magnesium and sulfur, which is an excellent organic fertilizer.
This time of year gardeners are already looking at what to purchase for next season, they are busy thumbing through catalogues or browsing the Internet for garden bulbs, perennial plants, and planning what to use for hanging basket plants, it is an exciting time of the year, planning ahead wondering what to try, and what to change, this is the sheer fun of gardening.
A spokesman for Blooming Direct a horticultural business based on the Island of Jersey said we sell a huge amount of bulbs, the old favourites such as daffodils, tulips, crocus, simply because the show starts early with these bulbs, but we also sell a lot of roses, shrubs, and lavender plants, this plant can live easily anywhere in the garden, and is now seeing its way into the herb garden for use in the kitchen to flavour many dishes.
Natural methods of fertilization are now becoming so popular, things that we throw away every day from our kitchen, we can use to make our garden more bountiful and beautiful, and more importantly offer us healthy eating.
For further information visit: www.bloomingdirect.com or you can visit their Facebook page to discover more offers.
